rightwise
/ˈɹaɪtˌwaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Archaic spelling of righteous (“make righteous; justify religiously, absolve from sin”).
Archaic
adv
Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.
adv
By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).
adj
Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.
Example Sentences
- "I came not to call the rightwise, but the synners to repentaunce."
- "And Plato sayeth that it is extreme iniustice he to seme rightwise which in dede is uniuste."
- "Man feels maddened by his pent-uppness, & woman seems to understand that a rightwise man's cruel-fain-th is part of his hunger for women."
- "God's righteousness is what it must be as the power which rightwises the sinner, namely, God's victory over against the rebellion of the world."
- "[…] God's righteousness is shown in the rightwising of sinners."
- "In other words, God rightwises or reconciles humans to Him by infusing them with faith."
Etymology
From Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtwīs (“righteous, just; right, justifiable”), corresponding to right + -wise. The second element was later confused with or assimilated to -ous, leading to the modern spelling righteous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹaɪtˌwaɪz/
- British English: /ˈɹaɪtwaɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more rightwise (comparative)
most rightwise (superlative)
rightwises (present, singular)
rightwising (participle, present)
rightwised (participle, past)
rightwised (past)